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16 March 2009

Stieg Larsson trilogy: books, film and journalism

Via an email from Quercus, and from various blogs, Stieg Larsson’s brother and father have established an annual 200,000 kroner Stieg Larsson prize, in Sweden, for any person or organization that acts in the spirit of his journalism: “Since the 1970s Stieg Larsson had specialized in investigating and documenting Swedish right-wing extremism. In 1995 he was one of the journalists involved in establishing The Expo Foundation. He was the editor-in-chief of the anti-racist magazine Expo, and his commitment to democracy and anti-fascism was well known in Sweden as well as abroad.” Download the press release for more details .

The film of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO opened to "explosive" figures in Sweden and Denmark, according to Screenplay Europe. Some 350,000 people queued for the 140-minute film of Stieg Larsson's sweeping tale of dark secrets in a darker family, putting it at the top of both box offices over the weekend of 5 March. The film was released in Norway last week (13 March), and will soon open in Finland (27 March) and in France, where it has been rumoured that it will open the Cannes Film Festival on 13 May, with the French title of Men Who Do Not Love Women.